There is, as Dr. Francisco Velázquez likes to say, light at the end of the tunnel.
On the other hand – and this is the hard part – there’s still a lot of tunnel left.
It is a strange, almost incoherent time on the pandemic front. Reasons for optimism mingle with deep exhaustion over our isolated, slowed-down lives. Vaccine optimism battles anxiety over new variants.
The things we need to do to beat this thing – still! after all this time! – remain in constant conflict with our patience, our desires, our natures. Who isn’t feeling stultified, battered, depressed, lonely? Who isn’t suffering some loss – economic, social, emotional,
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